NEW ORLEANS & NORTHEASTERN R. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 50184.

137 F.Supp. 731 (1956)

NEW ORLEANS & NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

January 31, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seddon G. Boxley, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Paris T. Houston, Washington, D. C., with whom was Warren E. Burger, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, MADDEN and LARAMORE, Judges.


JONES, Chief Judge.

This case presents the issue of whether the class rate or the commodity rate was applicable to a shipment of jeeps which moved over the lines of plaintiff and connecting carriers in August 1945 from Toledo, Ohio, to New Orleans, Louisiana, crated for export.

At the time the shipments were made there was in effect Item 43785 of Consolidated Freight Classification No. 16, which provided that the first-class rate applied on shipments of passenger...

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